TET Enzymes in the Immune system: from DNA demethylation to immunotherapy, inflammation, and cancer

IF López-Moyado, M Ko, PG Hogan… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins are iron-dependent and α-ketoglutarate-dependent
dioxygenases that sequentially oxidize the methyl group of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5 …

Mitochondrial DNA-triggered innate immune response: mechanisms and diseases

MM Hu, HB Shu - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Various cellular stress conditions trigger mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) release from
mitochondria into the cytosol. The released mtDNA is sensed by the cGAS-MITA/STING …

Hematopoietic aging promotes cancer by fueling IL-1⍺–driven emergency myelopoiesis

MD Park, J Le Berichel, P Hamon, CM Wilk, M Belabed… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Age is a major risk factor for cancer, but how aging impacts tumor control remains unclear. In
this study, we establish that aging of the immune system, regardless of the age of the stroma …

Loss-of-function mutations in Dnmt3a and Tet2 lead to accelerated atherosclerosis and concordant macrophage phenotypes

PJ Rauch, J Gopakumar, AJ Silver, D Nachun… - Nature Cardiovascular …, 2023 - nature.com
Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is defined by the presence of a
cancer-associated somatic mutation in white blood cells in the absence of overt …

Inflammatory crosstalk impairs phagocytic receptors and aggravates atherosclerosis in clonal hematopoiesis in mice

W Liu, BD Hardaway, E Kim, J Pauli, JL Wettich… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2025 - jci.org
Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) increases inflammasome-linked atherosclerosis, but the
mechanisms by which CH mutant cells transmit inflammatory signals to nonmutant cells are …

The role of inflammation in the initiation and progression of myeloid neoplasms

JC Balandrán, A Lasry, I Aifantis - Blood Cancer Discovery, 2023 - aacrjournals.org
Myeloid malignancies are devastating hematologic cancers with limited therapeutic options.
Inflammation is emerging as a novel driver of myeloid malignancy, with important …

Clonal hematopoiesis and inflammation–the perpetual cycle

S Avagyan, LI Zon - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
Acquired genetic or cytogenetic alterations in a blood stem cell that confer clonal fitness
promote its relative expansion leading to clonal hematopoiesis (CH). Despite a largely intact …

Mitochondrial epigenetics in aging and cardiovascular diseases

A Mongelli, A Mengozzi, M Geiger, E Gorica… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are cellular organelles which generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
molecules for the maintenance of cellular energy through the oxidative phosphorylation …

The role of histone modifications in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease

C Kourtidou, K Tziomalos - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease. The
pathogenesis of DKD is multifactorial, with several molecular pathways implicated. Recent …

STING activation in TET2-mutated hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells contributes to the increased self-renewal and neoplastic transformation

J **e, M Sheng, S Rong, D Zhou, C Wang, W Wu… - Leukemia, 2023 - nature.com
Somatic loss-of-function mutations of the dioxygenase Ten-eleven translocation-2 (TET2)
occur frequently in individuals with clonal hematopoiesis (CH) and acute myeloid leukemia …